You are the person who lets a door close in front of a mom holding a toddler in -10 degree weather without bothering to look back and hold it open.

You are the person who walks next to your friend on a sidewalk or down a store aisle without even the slightest move to the side to allow people to walk in the opposite direction.

You are the person who walks between a mother and her child causing the mother to lose site of her child and moves so incredibly slow passing in front of them that the mother has no idea where her child has gone.

You are the person who pulls out in front of someone while driving without even looking causing others to slam on their brakes in order to avoid a collision.

You are the person who basically thinks they are the only person in the world at that moment. You think the world revolves around you, that everything stops in order to let you go about your business. You have no regard for the needs of others and honestly I wonder if you realize we are here at all.

You are rude.

You are obnoxious.

You inconvenience me and have the potential to cause harm.

And I just want to shake you and ask if you if you are awake in there.

Hey…wanna know the FASTEST way to have people treat you badly?? Be in a wheelchair?? All of a sudden…it is like…people forget their manners. No one holds the door open for us–as my husband struggles to open the door and push the wheelchair and meanwhile, the people just walk on through (like he is their personal door opener!!) GRRRR!! and oh, I could go on. But, thankfully, lately, I only have to be in the “chair” if I have to walk for any length of time or if I am going to be somewhere and I know that I am going to just be more comfortable sitting in my chair (both my hips are replaced and sometimes chairs are hard for my to sit on for very long)

Anyway, my hubby and I laugh that when I am in the chair that I have the “cloak of invisibility on”….and we sort of say it LOUDLY whenever the RUDE people are doing their RUDENESS!! But of course, they are oblivious!!

Yes I’ve met this person! And I just wanted to add the drivers who don’t use turn signals so you and your baby in the stroller think its safe to cross…or those drivers who pull their car up to the edge of the street they want to turn into, so that pedestrians with their kids can’t cross unless they want to walk in the narrow space and to risk getting hit by the cars whizzing and by the time they can its because the lights turned – thus the car can now move.

Or the Rude, selfish drivers who just can’t wait to turn on a busy street so after you’ve waited forever for the light to turn and the walk signal to give you the okay, they are turning fast although there is a pedestrian waiting so that once every car in a line has zipped past, getting to their destination five minutes sooner, the lights changed (many of these walk signals are very short)and the pedestrian has to wait a little bit of forever for the same thing to happen, until she’s missed her second bus (yes this used to happen to me all the time) and has to wait half an hour in the cold or heat for another one to get her to work on a journey that already takes an hour or so – luckily as a pedestrian, I used to allow for rude people or late buses, unlike these drivers who obviously had no control of their time. Or the designers of neighborhoods who fail to put in sidewalks so that you and your stroller have to go along the edge of the road or along dirt or prickly grass/bushes.

Or in hot or freezing weather when you’re trying to get into a store or restaurant with your stroller and the person who went in ahead of you just stares but doesn’t help (again dependent on what city/state I’m in). OR the people behind you that don’t help. And again, walk signals for many streets are quick – the white walk last a few short seconds – even on a double street – then the flashing light last a few more seconds.

I have to add that some places my husband and I have lived or visited fall over themselves to be helpful – especially to pregnant women or those with kids.

I have dypraxia and don’t drive – my husband does all the driving (and he is an excellent and very polite driver) and the world was definitely made for driver’s most of which depending on the state I’m living in at any time, are rude and only think of themselves.

I speak up, LOUDLY, when I see this happening…if you’re in front of a Mom with children, you’d better open the door for her and hold it open or I’m going to ASK you to. Same goes for inconsiderate drivers, “Get back, and let them cross!”, I’ve yelled out more than once. I was in the grocery store two days ago and saw this man running his cart to the checkout so he could get ahead of a Mommy with two kids-one in the cart, one holding her hand and whining for something he wanted to buy-anyway, I pushed my cart in front of his and then I asked the Mommy to go ahead of me in line, Hee hee. I thought the man was going to freak out, but he ended up waiting a lot longer than he had anticipated. I teach by example, LOL!

My pet peeve is when people drop the door in my face. It makes me LIVID. We are never too busy to look around, grr.

The sad bit is that we’ve all also been *that person*. *sigh* And we of course didn’t notice, because we were oblivious to those around us!

When we’re late, or upset, or just pulled inside our own heads, we fail to connect with those around us.

Shelley, 2 Christmas Eve’s ago, I saw a man in his 80s trying to cross the street in his wheel chair. He was at a corner with no ramp, and he fell out of his chair, right on the street. Did anyone stop? no. It made me want to vomit. On CHRISTMAS EVE! I stopped my car in the middle of the lane, to protect him, got out, leaving my 2 kids in the car, helped him cross the street, then wrote a letter to the editor for our small town paper about how disgusted I was at people for not stopping. Then, I called the city council and asked WHY the corners next to the county hospital did not have wheel chair ramps. So many people dropped the ball there, and it still makes me angry.

Thanks for the reminder to 1-be aware of those around us (as mamas I think we are pretty aware anyway) and 2- raise our babies to be kind, courteous adults.

I wish these people could read your blog and see themself in it. Sometimes people are so tied up with themself and their problems that they don’t see people in the world around them. It is so sad for them and for the people they interact with.

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